This preview release includes new Command Palette system actions, improved search ranking, and reliability fixes across Image Resizer, Color Picker, and ZoomIt.

Installer Hashes

| Description | Filename | sha256 hash | | --- | --- | --- | | Per user - x64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.101.2293.0-x64.exe | E2F1E02FC3440E0D77551E9C55AD139817158E4F54574248A731429D3ED048D4 | | Per user - ARM64 | PowerToysUserSetup-0.101.2293.0-arm64.exe | 6123DE876910EF02B3356387423811FC51DF0D7549603F52CFABF197C9A3C62B | | Machine wide - x64 | PowerToysSetup-0.101.2293.0-x64.exe | 5575FA841DEC1AFCD06C8846C79D8DC749EC51C16384FA8035ABA1BEAFA71C4C | | Machine wide - ARM64 | PowerToysSetup-0.101.2293.0-arm64.exe | 478A1CB707F72C9D764F6FE61C00F4FD8F620CCCA21B8ABA1322821D399E6A13 |

Highlights

Command Palette: Added Update and restart and Update and shut down actions when Windows Update is waiting for a reboot.
Command Palette: Improved fallback ranking so exact title matches appear above unrelated fuzzy results.
Image Resizer: Made CLI input handling stricter and more diagnosable while preventing invalid or duplicate work.
Color Picker: Fixed incorrect sampling intervals when displays report a default refresh-rate sentinel.
ZoomIt: Prevented recording from hanging when audio initialization fails or remains in progress.

Command Palette

Added Update and restart and Update and shut down system commands that appear only when Windows Update is waiting for a reboot in #49437 by @Subhro-ai.
Ranked global fallback actions by how well their titles match the query, allowing exact matches such as Reload to outrank unrelated fuzzy results in #49983.

Color Picker

Kept cursor sampling responsive when a display reports its hardware-default refresh rate as 0 or 1 in #49973.

Image Resizer

Improved CLI validation and diagnostics for options, paths, dimensions, presets, wildcards, pipes, and duplicate inputs while preserving GUI and context-menu compatibility in #49854.

ZoomIt

Prevented a recording deadlock by safely completing or disposing in-progress audio initialization after failures in #49912 by @foxmsft.

Development

Added an autonomous, draft-only preview release workflow with exact build identity, semantic deltas, asset validation, and post-upload verification in #49797 by @LegendaryBlair.
Removed unused shared UI dependencies and unreachable managed settings aliases while retaining command-line compatibility routes in #49895.